11-letter words containing l, i, v, e
- lip service — insincere expression of friendship, admiration, support, etc.; service by words only: He paid only lip service to the dictator.
- live action — of or relating to movies, videos, and the like, that feature real performers, as distinguished from animation: A new live-action version of the classic animated film will be released later this year.
- live center — Geometry. the middle point, as the point within a circle or sphere equally distant from all points of the circumference or surface, or the point within a regular polygon equally distant from the vertices.
- live centre — a conically pointed rod mounted in the headstock of a lathe that locates and turns with the workpiece
- live in sin — (of an unmarried couple) to live together
- live-action — of or relating to movies, videos, and the like, that feature real performers, as distinguished from animation: A new live-action version of the classic animated film will be released later this year.
- live-bearer — any viviparous fish of the family Poeciliidae, often kept in home aquariums.
- liveability — Alternative spelling of livability.
- livebearers — Plural form of livebearer.
- livelihoods — Plural form of livelihood.
- liver fluke — any of various trematodes, as Fasciola hepatica, parasitic in the liver and bile ducts of domestic animals and humans.
- liver salts — a preparation of mineral salts used to treat indigestion
- liver spots — a form of chloasma in which irregularly shaped light-brown spots occur on the skin.
- livermorium — a superheavy, synthetic, radioactive element with a very short half-life. Symbol: Lv; atomic number: 116.
- living dead — people who are very dull and boring
- living hell — If you describe a place or situation as a living hell, you are emphasizing that it is extremely unpleasant.
- living wage — a wage on which it is possible for a wage earner or an individual and his or her family to live at least according to minimum customary standards.
- livingstone — David, 1813–73, Scottish missionary and explorer in Africa.
- lobachevski — Nikoˈlai Iˈvanovich (nikɔˈlaɪ iˈvɑnɔvɪtʃ ) ; nēk^ōlīˈ ēväˈn^ōvich) 1793-1856; Russ. mathematician
- locomotives — Plural form of locomotive.
- locorestive — having a tendency to rest in one place
- logic level — the voltage level representing one or zero in an electronic logic circuit
- longevities — Plural form of longevity.
- look alive! — having life; living; existing; not dead or lifeless.
- look lively — hurry
- loupcervier — the Canada lynx.
- love affair — a romantic relationship or episode between lovers; an amour.
- love potion — a magical potion believed to arouse love or sexual passion toward a specified person, especially the person offering it.
- lubavitcher — a member of a missionary Hasidic movement founded in the 1700s by Rabbi Shneour Zalman of Lyady.
- lucratively — In a lucrative manner, profitably.
- machiavelli — Niccolò di Bernardo [neek-kaw-law dee ber-nahr-daw] /ˌnik kɔˈlɔ di bɛrˈnɑr dɔ/ (Show IPA), 1469–1527, Italian statesman, political philosopher, and author.
- mail server — 1. (tool, messaging) A program that distributes files or information in response to requests sent via electronic mail. Examples on the Internet include Almanac and netlib. Mail servers are also used on Bitnet. In the days before Internet access was widespread and UUCP mail links were common, mail servers could be used to provide remote services which might now be provided via FTP or WWW. 2. (messaging) (Or "mail hub") A computer used to store and/or forward electronic mail.
- makebelieve — Alternative form of make-believe.
- maladaptive — of, relating to, or characterized by maladaptation or incomplete, inadequate, or faulty adaptation: The maladaptive behavior of isolated children was difficult to change.
- mars violet — a dark grayish-purple color.
- mcminnville — a town in NW Oregon.
- medievalism — the spirit, practices, or methods of the Middle Ages.
- medievalist — an expert in medieval history, literature, philosophy, etc.
- medievalize — To cause something to be more medieval.
- meliorative — That meliorates; curative, salutary.
- mendelevium — a transuranic element. Symbol: Md, Mv; atomic number: 101.
- merveilleux — (historical) Contemporary names for the extravagantly dressed French fops and \u2018fine ladies\u2019 of the period of the Directory, who affected a revival of the classical costume of ancient Greece.
- microvessel — (medicine) A very small blood vessel, such as a capillary or arteriole.
- mill valley — a town in W California, NW of San Francisco.
- misbelieved — Simple past tense and past participle of misbelieve.
- misbeliever — Someone who holds an unauthorised belief; a heretic, an unbeliever.
- misevaluate — to determine or set the value or amount of; appraise: to evaluate property.
- monroeville — a city in SW Pennsylvania, near Pittsburgh.
- most-livery — liverish.
- moundsville — a city in NW West Virginia, on the Ohio River.